Conus californicus

Conus californicus
Californiconus californicus
A live individual of the California cone, Californiconus californicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Subfamily: Coninae
Genus: Californiconus
Species: C. californicus
Binomial name
Californiconus californicus
Hinds in Reeve, 1844
Synonyms[1]

Conus ravus Gould, 1853

Californiconus californicus, common name the California cone, is a species of small, predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails.

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Distribution

This small cone snail is unusual because it lives in the cooler waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean including most of the coast of California north to San Francisco, whereas most other cone snails are tropical.[2]

Feeding habits

The California cone hunts and eats marine worms and mollusks, and is also a scavenger.[2]

Fossil record

Fossils of Californiconus californicus have been recovered from Late Pleistocene strata of Isla Vista, California.[3]

References

  1. ^ Californiconus californicus Reeve, 1844.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426439 on 27 March 2010.
  2. ^ a b Stewart J. & Gilly W. F. (October 2005). "Piscivorous Behavior of a Temperate Cone Snail, Conus californicus". Biological Bulletin 209: 146-153. full text.
  3. ^ McMenamin, M. A. S. (1984). "Californiconus californicus from the Late Pleistocene of Isla Vista, California". Bulletin of the Southern California Paleontological Society 16 (1&2): 9. 
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